January 2010
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“In the 80s, legit game design was the exact same as a 6th grader scribbling...”
– Bryan Lee O’Malley, on The Legend of Zelda concept art
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Nile – Kafir!
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WatchThis is a test of the Puppy Broadcast System. DO NOT BE ALARMED
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I’ve made some small changes to the ◯ theme. The new version hasn’t been submitted to the theme directory yet; it hasn’t been tested extensively, and may fail spectacularly in certain browsers. For anyone who is interested in trying it, though, it’s available to download from GitHub. Here’s what’s new:
YouTube videos are styled to match your colour scheme...
“I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client...”
– Saul Bass (via davidkaneda & marco)
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Capital Wasteland Medley
It seems I still...
“Simplicity is when someone takes care of the details.”
– iA: What’s Next in Web Design?
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“Sometimes we catch a glimpse of the truth, and discover the actual rules of a...”
– Paul Buchheit on hacking, via Cyberpunk Review
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“The ones that win are the ones that ship.”
– Dive Into HTML5: How Did We Get Here?
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“The em dash [—] is the nineteenth-century standard, still prescribed in many...”
– Bringhurst is breaking my heart
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The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble – Embers, via...
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Correspondence.
langer:
I fired off an email last night to Tumblr’s resident curator of conjugal and conjugational curiosities, Raynor Ganan, to inquire after the following:
Do you know of the etymological origin of the phrase “eat a dick”, and/or any of its common variations, including “get a dick” and “eat a bag of dicks” (or, alternatively, “eat a whole bag of dicks”)?
His reply came quickly:
per your...
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Weather: On a Strictly Need to Know Basis →
When I was a kid, I didn’t always understand temperatures. “It’s going to be 60 degrees tomorrow!” “Sooooo, it’ll be… hot?” I wasn’t daft, I just never took an interest to the day’s weather. Do I wear a jacket or not, that’s all I wanted to know.
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“I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.”
– Buckminster Fuller
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Wolves in the Throne Room – Cleansing
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On the general negativity of online technical discussions.
I think that initial knee-jerk “I’ve been looking at this for ten seconds and now let me explain the critical flaws” reaction is a common one among people with engineering mindsets. And that’s not a good thing.
Ironically, there’s a good response to this on Hacker News:
I have a simple guideline for...
